Format:
1 Online-Ressource (321 p.)
ISBN:
9780815722922
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0815722923
Content:
How much responsibility for providing health care to the poor should be devolved from the federal government to the states? Any answer to this critical policy question requires a careful assessment of the Medicaid program. Drawing on the insights of leading scholars and top state health care officials, this volume analyzes the policy and management implications of various options for Medicaid devolution. Proponents of devolution typically express confidence that states can meet the challenges it will pose for them. But, as this book shows, the degree to which states have the capacity and commi
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Cover -- Contents -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Faces of Devolution -- 3. Medicaid Devolution: A Fiscal Perspective -- 4. Managed Care and Devolution -- 5. Safety Net Providers and the New Medicaid: Choices and Challenges -- 6. Long-Term Care and Devolution -- 7. Who Gets What? Devolution of Eligibility and Benefits in Medicaid -- 8. Federalism and the Medicaid Challenge -- Contributors -- Conference Participants -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780815784517
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Thompson, Frank J Medicaid and Devolution Washington : Brookings Institution Press,c1998 ISBN 9780815784517
Language:
English
